This week, Matt and Nick trade notes on Miss March and…Matt apologises for finding it impossible to trudge through the subtitled Leviathan because he’s completely uncultured. Also, some stray notes on Oscar results.

Matt chats to Echo Oh’s front woman, Yolanda Fagan, about their US tour, upcoming darkspace gig and being abducted by aliens.

We launch a brand new segment of weekly health tips with long time personal trainer, Suli. This week, Suli recommends picking up a new health goal for the first of each month and Matt has an idea from Tim Ferris’ “24 Hour Body”

Matt chats with Jas Josland in anticipation of her upcoming gig at Lyttelton Records promoting her debut album, “See What You Did There”

Green MP Chloe Swarbrick steps in for James Shaw and chats to Matt about the new National Party leadership and the ins and outs of various cannabis reforms.

It’s the first Neat Places segment of the year! This week, Johnny walks us through the various new attractions popping up in Akaroa.

Jay is back from vacation and bringing us some tacky 80s synth! Up this week are Imagination with their track “New Dimension”. Matt hates it, but the listeners rebuke him.

Also: Surf Report as usual, and we make way in to the “History and Origins” section of Wikipedia’s “Surfing” article.

This week, Martyn Pepperell takes us back to 1981 with the first ever reissue of Suzanne Menzel’s “Goodbyes and Beginnings”.

This week, Matt pitches scrapping all laws against billsticking and has Tim dead to rights. They also discuss the recent sex scandal surrounding top law firm, Russell McVeagh, and what people should know about sexual harassment laws in light of it.

This week, Dave from Scorpio gives us a preview of the forthcoming “London Rules” by Mick Herron, the fifth installment in his series of dark comedy spy novels.